Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Jennifer Rubin has two posts this morning, both of which illustrate my point about the dangerous relationship between our CIC and the military he’s supposed to be leading. In the first, she talks about the insane decision-making process in D.C., which seems to have little to do with either victory
Continue readingHere’s what I’ll be studying, with pleasure, tomorrow morning, from the Watcher’s Council: Council Submissions Mere Rhetoric – Lefty Meme Congeals: The Real War Is In Pakistan Not Afghanistan Joshuapundit – J Street – A Particularly Nasty Dead End To Be Avoided Bookworm Room – The march of the thought
Continue readingSousa’s marches have a lovely fin de siecle quality that makes them ageless. This march, though, isn’t ageless, but it’s damn good, and I really, really, really love how completely un-PC it is. It speaks to the heart of the troops’ job, without apology. As my Dad always said (and,
Continue readingI was reading Kurt Schlicter’s enjoyable and savage attack on John Lennon’s Imagine, when I got the yen to find out just who this Kurt Schlicter is. Big mistake. People like Schlicter make me realize that I’ve wasted way too much of my life doing silly things like sleeping and
Continue readingOnce again, I’m running a little late but I’m still getting there in the end. Here are last week’s winners for the Watcher’s Council: Winning Council Submissions First place with 1 2/3 points! – Joshuapundit – When Anti-Semitism Isn’t …And When It Is Second place with 1 1/3 points –
Continue readingWith the trigger being Obama’s obsession with niqabs and hijabs, I did a lengthy post about my belief that Obama fundamentally does not like women. He depends on strong women (his wife, Valerie Jarrett), but he doesn’t like them. In fact, I’m willing to bet that his dependence on them
Continue readingI’ve said it a million times and I’ll now say it for the million and first time: You fight wars to win. If you’re not committed to winning, leave. If you don’t leave, and fight a half-assed war, you end with dead soldiers. That’s what happened in Vietnam, and that’s
Continue readingAs far as I can tell, Frank’s primary defense of Obama’s attack on Fox News is that Obama isn’t as bad as Nixon’s attacks on the press were. Given the low esteem in which liberals hold Nixon, I think we can safely call that damning with faint praise. (Or, perhaps,
Continue readingJames Taranto nails what the President really meant to say when he spoke to troops about Afghanistan: “I will never rush the solemn decision of sending you into harm’s way,” FoxNews.com quotes the president as telling servicemen. As for the servicemen who are already in harm’s way: Jeez, guys, be
Continue readingI have deadline work today, so won’t be able to blog for a while. ‘Til then, I was impressed with these morning reads: The Post-Gracious President, which focuses on Obama’s ongoing battle against the now long-departed President Bush. I think Obama is a singularly unpleasant person, as I’ve blogged before,
Continue readingIt’s no wonder CNN felt compelled to take the SNL “Obama does nothing” skit seriously. Wolf Blitzer, who deconstructed all the “lies” in the comedy sketch, inadvertently created a little comedy sketch of his own, when he made an utterly pathetic showing on Jeopardy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcWs-MFOQWQ[/youtube] There are no defenses adequate
Continue readingHollywood is quite sure that Roman Polansky should be forgiven for raping a 13 year old because, considering his value to the artistic world, it wasn’t really rape. It was so long ago, he’s so talented, she’s so over it, whatever . . . . “All is forgiven, dear. Come
Continue readingSome songs operate like time machines so that, when I hear them, I’m instantly plummeted back into my own past. This John Denver song whipped me back to being 11 years old so quickly that I’m still having a hard time coping with the gray streaks in my hair: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwARpaKHx_w[/youtube]
Continue readingThe way this attack ad against rising star Doug Hoffman (in NY’s 23rd district) is framed, it’s clear that Hoffman’s sin is being wealthy: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15L_TaolOqg[/youtube] I think that’s a marvelous standard by which to disqualify people from political office, at least this year. (And we know from what happens in
Continue readingGM’s Place discusses the way in which the Obama Administration is using a splitting technique that’s pretty classic for patients with Borderline Personality Disorders. Chicago Boyz looks at the way that, counterintuitively for those who aren’t paying attention, liberal orders suddenly collapse, turning authoritarian regimes when they fail to fulfill
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